Storm clouds of war gathered in outer space, but Earth gradually returned to calm after the uproar of the "Doomsday Crisis."
After all, aliens and the like were far too remote from ordinary people, so everyone continued going about their mundane daily lives. Yet at some point, a rather extraordinary rumor began to spread.
Some people claimed they had obtained... Virtual Helmets!
Yes, the kind of Virtual Helmet from futuristic movies that offered total immersion, with realism approaching 100%!
After the "Doomsday Crisis," Nie Yun launched the first round of his Recruitment Plan, distributing a total of ten thousand helmets bound to their users' identities. Everyone on the recruitment list was a priority target flagged by Codename.
The criteria for selecting them were rather... special! Yes, "special" in the most literal sense!
Nie Yun maintained that he had little need for standard-issue soldiers who simply charged straight ahead. His robot army was the most fearless and organized fighting force there was.
So Nie Yun, leader of the SOS Organization, had no interest in ordinary humans. He was interested only in the outliers among humanity!
These outliers were not aliens, people from the future, or those with supernatural powers. They were people who had made unconventional choices under immense danger and psychological pressure!
They included both men and women, all with distinctive ways of thinking. They were not bound by rules and restrictions, nor had they followed the crowd in fleeing for their lives. Instead, they had their own ways of doing things.
Whether those actions were righteous or evil, their ways of thinking were "special"!
Those distinctive minds were precisely the "diversity" among human individuals that Nie Yun needed!
Others had been selected because they possessed certain "special" backgrounds or abilities.
They included a genius surgeon who had saved countless